The Computer History Simulation Project

Posted by michael on Wednesday April 10, 2002 @08:33PM from the remembering-the-bad-old-days dept.

ChunKing writes "The Computer History Simulation Project is a loose Internet-based collective of people interested in restoring historically significant computer hardware and software systems by simulation. The goal of the project is to create highly portable system simulators and to publish them as freeware on the Internet, with freely available copies of significant or representative software. I can't wait 'til someone fixes me an OS/390 emulator to remind me of the days when I used to be an Ops Analyst for a major bank..."

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Boring.... by tonywestonuk · 2002-04-10 21:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hmm, this must be the most boring thing ever. Hours of coding time spent just to make a emulator program that doesn't do anything usefull, apart from flash a few lights, or output some obscure code in punch tape format.... I can understand why emulators like 'Mame' have been popular, as they enable you to re-live the time you spent feading the ol' arcade games.... But, for Heaven sake, who is going to enjoy using these emu's once there complete?....